Background
On June 18, 1780, Patriot General Griffith Rutherford, camped near Charlotte, North Carolina, learned that a large force of Loyalists was assembling at Ramsour's Mill, west of Charlotte (near present-day Lincolnton). Rutherford began moving his troops in that direction, and on June 19 he sent orders to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Locke and other local militia leaders call up their men.
Locke gathered 400 men at Mountain Creek, about 16 miles (26 km) from Ramsour's Mill. Their intelligence showed that the Loyalist force was more than three times their size, but it was decided to attack early the next morning without waiting for Rutherford's forces. At daybreak on June 20, they were one mile from the Loyalist camp, located on a hill about 300 yards (270 m) east of the mill.
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